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I’m happy to share with you the CALA Southeast Chapter’s first program for fall, 2016. It will be held in one of the most beautiful campuses in Florida and in the US, Rollins College. This is one of a series of programs to be organized by our chapter. A big thank you to Wenxian Zhang, Professor, Head of Archives & Special Collections, Rollins College, for hosting this event and giving an exciting talk on his research on images related to China. We’d also like to thank Zhao Liu from The Elling O. Eide Charitable Foundation for sharing her library’s collections and her work there. We’re still calling for speakers for the Lightning Round Talks (each 10 minutes). The conference will have online capability, so even if you cannot attend it on site, you can join it online (the online conference url will be shared later). Please reply to this message if you’re interested in presenting and/or attending.

Wenxian Zhang, Professor, Head of Archives & Special Collections, Rollins College

China through American Eyes:

Depictions of the Chinese People and Culture in the US Print Media of the Late 19th Century.

Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this study will present pictures about China and the Chinese published in books, brochures, commercial advertisements, campaign posters, postcards, etc. Together, they have documented colorful portrayals of the Chinese and their culture by the U.S. print media and their evolution from ethnic curiosity, stereotyping, and racial prejudice to social awareness, reluctant understanding, and eventual acceptance. This collection of images has essentially formed a rich visual resource that is both diverse and intriguing; and as primary source documents, they carry significant historical and cultural values that could stimulate further academic research.

Schedule:

1:15-1:30 Arriving (Guests will be greeted in front of the Olin Library and directed to the conference room)

Parking: Please go directly to the College Parking Garage between Lyman and Comstock Avenues, and walk across Fairbanks to campus and toward Olin Library, which will only take about five minutes. Please take the parking ticket with you, so that Wenxian Zhang, Head of Archives & Special Collections at Rollins College can validate in the library for free parking when you leave. Here are both its interactive campus map and printable PDF, and Olin Library is #235. For onsite attendees, if you want to carpool, or need help in parking, please call 407-412-0001 in advance.

As you know, the 2011 CALA Southeast (SE) Election had been held from June 14, 2011 to June 28, 2011. After a careful review, the 2011 CALA Southeast (SE) Nomination and Election Committee is very pleased to declare the following election results:

Based on the CALA Statistics, there are total of 35 e-ballots generated and sent. There are total of 21 votes, two of which are incomplete and should probably not be counted. Incomplete e-ballots can be identified by blank value in the “Completed” column in the report.

As a result, 18 votes altogether are counted as effective votes.

Candidate who will fill the position of Vice President (2011-2012):
Luo Zhou
Chinese Studies Librarian
Duke University Libraries
Telephone: 919-660-5803
E-mail: luo.zhou@duke.edu

Taking this opportunity, the 2011 CALA Southeast (SE) Nomination and Election Committee wish to express its very warm congratulations to our new elected chapter officers. You will become new emerging leaders in our CALA Southeast Chapters.

At the same time, the 2011 CALA Southeast (SE) Nomination and Election Committee especially appreciate the active participation and the strong support by Dr. Xiaorong Shao and Dr. Wenxian Zhang. With their remarkable academic and scholarly achievements, the CALA Southeast Chapter will be able to raise its benchmarks to filter out its new emerging pioneers.

A special thank you must also be given to all of CALA Southeast (SE) Chapter members who participated in this online election and executed their rights to select new trustworthy leaders in our chapter.

Finally, let’s celebrate and wish our new chapter leaders will make more contributions and progresses to the CALA and CALA Southeast Chapter.

Nominations and Self-nominations are welcome. All nominees must be current CALA Southeast (SE) Chapter personal members in good standing. Nominations and self-nominations, to be nominated or to seek for the specific position, can be sent directly to Lili Li, Chair of the 2011 CALA Southeast (SE) Chapter Nominating and Election Committee, at lilili@georgiasouthern.edu.

All nominations and self-nominations are due by 5:00p.m. EST., on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.

The CALA Southeast Chapter successfully held its inaugural annual conference at the University of Central Florida, South Lake Campus on April 30, 2011. Please check out some of the presentation slides posted on the conference wiki, where you can also find the link to the chapter flickr page for the conference photos.

Please find the PDF file of the 2010 election accouncement for our chapter.

Welcome Our New Member

Jenny Wang, a Cataloging Librarian for Savannah college of Art and Design library in Atlanta, GA, joined CALA SE Chapter. Jenny has been working there for 6 years. Before that, she worked as a Technical Service Librarian at Brooklyn Botanical Garden library for 3 years. Jenny got her MLS from the University of Kentucky Library School. Welcome, Jenny!

Welcome Our New Members

Two new members joined our chapter – Yanjuan Zou and Brian Leaf. Yanjuan is currently a graduate student in MLS program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also working as an Assistant Librarian in UNC Highway Safety Research Center. Her study areas are digital library and special librarianship. Brian is currently in the Master of Library Science program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Welcome, Yanjuan and Brian!

Luo Zhou and her co-authors Haihui Zhang and Yingzi Zeng published a book titled Classical Chinese Poems and Their Western Translations: Extensive Indexes to Recent Renderings by National Library of China Publishing House in 2009.